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The reason Microsoft was more successful than Apple had a lot to do with hardware. Apple used a Motorola CPU for many years and Microsoft wrote their OS for an Intel CPU. Intel simply out-designed and out-manufactured Motorola. Steven Jobs' NEXT computer was severely hampered by the fact that Motorola could not manufacture sufficient quantities of the RISC CPU that would have been ideal for the NEXT OS. In those important years there...

• • • • Originally Posted by MosaicFuneral Which made for a great movie , too. Thanks! I had forgotten that movie - why this thread didn't bring it up to the fore I will never understand. That scene with the power drill is ..... scary.

• • • • Originally Posted by niek_e You need a bunch of 404's and a spamsite? You're strange. Lol, that makes my day. I could get those any day although I wonder if you had a specific type of 404 in mind. Eg a 404 on googles website lol.

• • • • Originally Posted by GrimJack This gives us 6.4185 × 10^23 kg * 868.22 km/h * 1 (for calculations purposes we can consider Mars a perfect sphere and allow the radii to average to one) = 54649.22494^23 Joules or 1.3319001123e^11 megatons or 133,190,011,230 megatons of energy So... You're saying we'll need incisors about 2.06E+74 x 1.29E+80 x 1.29E+79 Ym large(I may have gotten sloppy and...

From the very first Post:"It seems to me we need to stop the rotation first, in order to apply directional force to change the orbit . I'm thinking many large rocket engines arranged along the equator (Fusion powered, of course)." In problems like this it's important to understand the objective, and it seems to me from your answers that you haven't been paying attention. I am now mounting a small, gimballed...

• • • • Originally Posted by MosaicFuneral Cool, what state/area? Let me just warn you: Don't get fat. I can tell you of many people who come over here and can't help but gain weight from all the cheap, easy fast food on every corner. Something like this number of 3.4 , can rapidly have a lot of exponents thrown on it(even on just a weekend vacation). Um, i'm going skiing in utah, going to...

• • • • Originally Posted by cwarn23 It will take 40 years before everybody knows how to use a PC as the average 45 year old does not know how to use a computer. And when people do get their first pc they want something simple. However with googles system you need to have a great understanding of networking devices to troubleshoot networking problems otherwise your google netbook will be useless or in some...

NeXT is OOP (steve jobs worked on this when he got kicked out of apple in the 80s, later was incorporated into Apple OSX) But so is windows explorer... Thats why Windows95 had so many memory leaks and got a rep for getting slow over time. Each explorer window was a new object, but when you clicked X they werent properley deconstructed and so the memory wasnt reallocated.

This Big Bang did not exist untill it was invented by a Belgian Catholic priest!

This [link] Already been ordered I think.